Migraine Prevalence and Use of Preventive Therapy
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Preventive therapy of migraine.
Sir, I read with interest the recent report of acute myopia induced by topiramate used for migraine prophylaxis. I would like to make certain observations. Firstly, Bhattacharyya et al used two medications (flunarizine and topiramate) as the initial preventive treatment of migraine. However, the guidelines recommend usage of a single drug. The drug should be considered a failure only after an a...
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Recibido: 09/07/08. Revisado: 11/07/08. Aceptado: 23/07/08. Ninan T. Mathew. director de la Clínica de Cefalea de Houston. Profesor de Neurología en la Escuela de Medicina Universidad de Texas Houston. Presidente de la Sociedad Internacional de Cefalea, de la sección de cefalea de la Academia Americana de Neurología y del Consejo Americano para educación en cefalea. Es autor de 200 publicacione...
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Migraine preventive therapy, even in the absence of a headache, is given in an attempt to reduce the frequency, duration, or severity of attacks. Circumstances that might warrant preventive treatment include disabling migraine attacks, the overuse of acute medications or failure of or contraindication to acute medications, troublesome side effects from medication, hemiplegic migraine, or very f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Neurology Briefs
سال: 2007
ISSN: 2166-6482,1043-3155
DOI: 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-21-2-1